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My links of the week (weekly)

“Summary : nothing better than thinking about service when imagining the future of enterprise. Because it’s both the foundation of new economic models. Because these models force us to rethink how our organizations work toward more agility and adaptability and see people and competences as services. Last because because providing people with a work environment that fits this new context will turn social tools as unifying front-ends that will use and combine all other applications…as services.”

“Likewise, it seemed like every vendor discovered social computing in 2012. There were some alliances (e.g., Ultimate and Yammer). There were some added collaboration capabilities. And, there were a lot of integrations of social media with recruiting applications. Nowadays, it’s hard to find a recruiting or talent management vendor without an alliance to LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.”

“The word “collaboration” is so heavily over-used and over-hyped it’s becoming meaningless. People refer to all social software within a company as “collaboration,” and this causes confusion. Vendors get away with saying whatever they want because they’re not saying anything at all and companies end up failing in their “collaboration” initiatives.”

“As part of my ongoing effort to share insights from this IBM study of CEO’s, it is clear the era of military style “command and control” is dead. Thank God! Compliments of the sales lead generation company Find New Customers.”

“I recently wrote Why conversational skills are needed to create a high-performance, engaged, networked organization, reflecting on an executive roundtable discussion I lead as part of the 21st anniversary celebrations of the Graduate School of Business of the University of New England.”

“As most readers of Recognize This! know, I have the honor and privilege of also being a contributing blogger on Compensation Café, which is hosted and edited by Ann Bares. Over the last many months of contributing to the Café, I’ve found I have much to learn about the ins and outs of compensation from my fellow bloggers. I tend to stick to the topic of employee recognition and rewards, perhaps branching out into how that impacts Total Rewards, with an occasional post on annual bonuses “

“Our lives at work and outside of work are not easily separated. I don’t know very many people who can truly “leave work at work.” To some extent, what happens at work affects our home lives as well. Recent CIPD research showed the link between employee engagement at work and overall well-being.”